Why Raw Food and Paleo Dieting May Be the New Eating Disorder

Orthorexia nervosa, the ‘health food eating disorder’, gets its name from the Greek word ortho, meaning straight, proper or correct.

This exaggerated focus on food can be seen today in some people who follow lifestyle movements such as ‘raw’, ‘clean’ and ‘paleo’.

American doctor Steven Bratman coined the term ‘orthorexia nervosa’ in 1997 some time after his experience in a commune in upstate New York.

It was there he developed an unhealthy obsession with eating ‘proper’ food.

‘All I could think about was food,’ he said. ‘But even when I became aware that my scrabbling in the dirt after raw vegetables and wild plants had become an obsession, I found it terribly difficult to free myself. (Read more from “Why Raw Food and Paleo Dieting May Be the New Eating Disorder” HERE)

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